I hate it because I receive more than my share of the obnoxious stuff, it really hate it because it wastes too much valuable time.  A little background before I continue might be helpful - my website is with Point2Agent and to make a long story short, I use their POP3 for my email. If I apply even the smallest filter against spam I end up not receiving important email which means nothing gets filtered. I receive several hundred spam emails a day, it's making me crazy!!!

A year or so ago, while looking for a solution I came across www.mailwasher.net. I tried the program but had a hard time getting it to work seamlessly with my mail program - so I uninstalled it.  Well.... since I still have so much spam I went looking again and found MailWasher was still around and decided to give it another go.  I'm not sure if a larger company bought them out, but the program is working quite well now.  The learning curve for the consumer is very slight plus there's a built-in learning curve to teach the program what you consider spam.  It's all in your control within the settings.  What I really like about it, is the bounce feature which allows you to determine which emails get bounced back to the offender.  This creates the appearance of your email address being invalid - it that cool or what!!!  I call it

Here's a screenshot of how mail is deciphered within their table:

MailWasher opens in another window so all the sorting is happening prior to any junk making it to your inbox.  The choices are all yours.  I've only been using it for a few days, but would say it's picking up about 70% of spam.  The other 30% seems to slip through but I think it's because of using Point2 for my POP3.  I'm using the free version for now but will probably buy the paid program.  It's not expensive at $39.95.  I looked for a coupon code and came up with this Promotional Code SDFTHGJ to save $10 (US) on MailWasher Pro!!  I'm not sure it's still good, but can't hurt to try.  They also give a money back guarantee so you can always return to the free version.  I sincerely hope this helps a lot of others out there who are being so disrupted by the hated stuff.  Let me know how it goes.  Also if you have something you're using and are happy with it, please post it here.  That goes for POP3 ideas as well.  I'm not sensitive to a little hijacking. 

Gail MacMillan - Broker
Home Sweet Home Florida Realty, Inc.
www.HomeSweetHomeFlorida.com 

Cross posted on:  http://activerain.com/blogs/homesweethomeflorida